Protection of Home Industry* 
ness, for the sole benefit of American agricul¬ 
ture and American field labor.” 
The March number of the same journal says, 
“ The agricultural interest in America will 
probably require in exchange for their produce, 
bullion j with which they may extend American 
agricultural improvements.” (We should be 
glad of paying our debts there, and the trifling 
amount of manufactures we are constantly im¬ 
porting from them, but are denied this poor pri¬ 
vilege, with almost every article we export from 
the north. They take cotton, which they can¬ 
not do without, and rice uncleaned, and a few 
other articles from the south; and a small quan¬ 
tity of potash from the north.) “ Surely her 
Majesty’s subjects are not so perfectly demented, 
as to prefer the countless plains on the banks of 
the Ohio to the cultivation of British and Irish 
fields, nor can they be so far gone in self-respect, 
as to work in factories, in mines, and to destroy 
their constitutions before furnaces, for the supply 
of foreign nations with the different articles of 
their labor; and the pay for these toils to be their 
food, so long as health permits them to do their 
worlc in a satisfactory manner to their .task¬ 
masters, (the Americans,) and not one day long¬ 
er.” The number of April gives the opinion 
of the seconder of the corn law modification. 
He says, “ Sir Robert Peelers corn law would 
effectually 'prevent any greater quantity (of 
corn) coming to us from America and Odessa , 
than the 'present law allowed” For themselves 
they say, “ American flour should, in a most 
particular manner, be excluded from our mar¬ 
kets; its importation will materially interfere 
with our milling trade, and a great proportion 
of the quantity latterly imported from America 
is not genuine, being mixed with Indian corn 
meal, and its deleterious qualities cannot readily 
be detected.” (We doubt if a pound of Indian 
meal has been mixed with every 1,000 barrels 
of wheat flour exported; and when sent abroad, 
our corn meal is esteemed a choice delicacy, 
wherever it goes. We have heard a resident 
at St. Croix the past winter, speak with enthu¬ 
siasm of the delicious article he was regaled 
with from the Wilmington mills. But to mis¬ 
state the case, and depreciate the American ar¬ 
ticle, is an English way of stating an argument 
and securing a case.) “ We cannot conceive 
that any British advantage can arise from this 
system of generosity, nor can we comprehend 
how that doctrine can benefit us, which for the 
sake of increasing agricultural cultivation in the 
wilds of America, would place millions of acres 
of land at home out of tillage.” 
We could multiply these extracts ad infini¬ 
tum, but we think they are sufficiently explicit, 
to show the present temper and feeling of Brit¬ 
ish public opinion towards the policy of admit¬ 
ting American agricultural products into that 
kingdom. We will now state briefly the con¬ 
dition of the laboring people in Europe, from 
which American farmers can judge of the pros¬ 
pect they have of being able to compete with 
them in the English grain market, whenever 
the short crops compel them to admit it. 
In Denmark, the peasantiy, who are the only 
laboring classes, are held in bondage, and are 
bought and sold with the land. 
In Russia, it is still harder for the serf, for 
the emperor and nobles own all the land in the 
empire, and the peasantry are transferred with 
the estate. They universally live in wretched 
cabins, sleep on the bare floor, and in the be¬ 
ginning of winter, have a tolerable supply of 
cabbage and coarse bread, scarcely ever meat or 
butter; but towards spring, especially if it be a 
hard winter, or they have had a scanty supply, 
or have been at all improvident, they are obliged 
to eke out their coarse meal by the addition of 
bark, and even straw reduced to a fine state. 
This brutish fodder produces intestinal diseases, 
that prove fatal to thousands on the return of 
warm weather. 
In Poland, the peasantry are all slaves. A 
writer who has travelled there in nearly every 
direction, says, “We never saw a. wheat loaf to 
the east of the Rhine in any part of Germany, 
Poland and Denmark,” and he might add 
Russia. And let it be borne in mind, these are 
the countries that produce the wheat which is 
stored up at Dantzic and other convenient points 
to pour into English ports whenever they are 
open at all. The food of the above competitors 
of American freemen is “cabbage, potatoes, and 
sometimes black bread and gruel without the 
addition of butter or meat.” 
In Austria, the nobles are the proprietors of 
the land, and the peasants work like our slaves, 
every day throughout the week for their mas¬ 
ters, except Sunday. 
In Hungary, it is still worse, for the peasant¬ 
ry (the slaves) do all the work, pay all the 
taxes, and have soldiers quartered on them at 
pleasure. 
In France, eight millions never eat wheat 
bread. Their food is barley, rye, buckwheat, 
chestnuts, and a few potatoes. The average 
wages in France is $37 50 for a man, and 
half this for a female for the year, and one-fifth 
of this amount is taken from them by taxes. 
In Ireland, the average wages are 9 to 11 
cents a day; and last of all, in England and 
Scotland, among a large class, they receive but 
just enough to keep soul and body together, and 
for the last year, if their own pitiable accounts 
are to be taken for truth, thousands have died 
from hunger and disease, consequent on their 
privations. 
